ARIES Genève: Constellations of the Subtle City

Geneva is a city that presents a smooth image, prosperous bankers, luxury watches, wealth set along a blue lake filled with sail boats. Then a second glance it shows another more serious face : high moral and good works, ONG’s,the UN and CERN. It is a image of dignity not vulgar opulence. Yet behind the mask is another city, secret and subtle. Yet how do we examine this secret life ?

Artist Aprille Best Glover proposes an opened-ended series of experimental walks constructed out of meaningful chance. On 12 separate occasions in August of 2010 the artist walked between a series of different locations arbitrarily structured from some of the oldest sources of human myth — the constellations of the zodiac. What if you imagined the stars of the constellations fell from the sky and you could walk between them? Can such an arbitrary experiment find the hidden subtle city behind the mask. One can only examine the experiment and decide for yourself.